Vermont v1.0

More photos, fewer words.  

Vermont: A delicious state.
And, here's a moderately interesting tidbit, this trip marks the first time Sean and I have ever visited a new state together (and we've been to ~36 between the two of us).  Clearly we had a lot of driving time to figure this one out....

Silver Service Inn, Manchester, VT -
I've never eaten so much for breakfast!  Ok, that's not true.  Maybe just not in the last 5 years.

Vermont Butter & Cheese Company, Websterville, VT -
Needless to say, I was mesmerized by this process.  Anyone up for some goat cheese in the next cheesemaking class?

It's so beautiful in its tiny crate! This is one of my all-time favorites: Aged goat cheese with a wood ash. 

Cremont: Double-cream aged milk and cow cheese.  Thick and creamy.  Perfect with sweet red pepper jelly.

Ben & Jerry's, Waterbury, VT -
The original van burst into flames and was dubbed the "World's Largest Baked Alaska"

The flavor graveyard!  This one had the best epitaph, but the flavor with the shortest life span was Sugar Plum at 6 weeks.  It was so bad, people called them up to ask them what was wrong with their ice cream.

We may have missed the peak of the fall foliage season, but it was still beautiful. 

Hildene, Manchester, VT -
A beautiful estate built by President Abraham Lincoln's son.  Apparently, they usually have one of the few remaining stove pipe hats that Lincoln owned on display, but theirs is on loan to the Reagan Library in California.  Just our luck. 

View from the Hildene property

A $2 waffle cone: A Manchester ice cream shop was hosting an ice cream sale before it shutdown for winter.
A massive cone to top off a dairy-focused weekend.

Just about to crossover into upstate New York heading home.  I hope there's a v2.0, and I hope it's during maple syrup season.....